Vestry Business

Templates and useful documents to help you with your Vestry meetings

The world of compliance continues to grow and we will add here any guidance and resources we can find to help you

From time to time we need you to provide us with information and we will post the forms to do that in this section

Your Constitution is your formal and legal charity document to guide how you run it

It should be reviewed annually, even if no changes are needed. If you do think changes are needed you submit them via the Diocesan Office to the Diocesan Registrar – there’s a helpful flowchart below

Trustee training for all Vestry Members (Trustees) takes place every 6 months, approximately. For further information, please contact a member of the DMMC team.

Detailed information on Vestry responsibilities can be found on the SEC website.

If these feels a little overwhelming, start with the following document, which outlines the key Vestry roles and responsibilities, with some additional notes and links below

The advice for charges has been provided by the Province, and you can click here for the relevant page on the SEC website.  However, we have endeavoured to put together a page of “Frequently asked questions” for you, as queries arise.  As well as the links below, you may find the answers in this FAQ section: GDPR – notice from The Communicant – Click here